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Talk about nightmares: the children of a city, thousands of them, may have been poisoned by lead in its drinking water in a process set off by adults intent on saving a little money, who learned of the dangers and then ignored the warnings of scientists, revealed nothing to the public about the risks to their health, insisted on the water’s safety, and in some cases suppressed information about its actual state. As anyone who has picked up a paper or turned on the TV news in recent weeks knows, this is a basic description of the ongoing crisis in Flint, Michigan, in which “austerity” economics dictated that a city switch to extremely corrosive water that often came out of the tap discolored, and sometimes left those who bathed in it with severe rashes. You undoubtedly also know that an anti-corrosive agent which might have prevented most of the corrosion in the city’s water pipes, and so the lead poisoning of untold numbers of its residents, was skipped at a savings of approximately $100 a day. And lest you think that any lessons have been learned, Republicans in Congress, eager (like Michigan Governor Rick Snyder) to save a few bucks at whatever cost to the health of people they could care less about, refuse to fund a fix to the problem. As Reuters reported recently, “Senator John Cornyn of Texas, the second-ranking Republican in the Senate, said aid to Flint must not add to U.S. budget deficits for 'what is a local and state problem.'"
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176101/tomgram%3A_rosner_and_markowitz%2C_welcome_to_the_united_states_of_flint/#more

Die Rolle von Veolia in der Wasser-Tragödie von Flint, Michigan

Im Februar 2015, fast ein ganzes Jahr bevor die Nachricht von der umfassenden Vergiftung in die Schlagzeilen kam, begutachtete der größte private Wasserkonzern Veolia, das Wasser in Flint als sicher. Veolia war von der Stadt beauftragt worden, die Wasserqualität zu begutachten, über die sich viele Einwohner beschwert hatten. Eine Frabrik von General Motors hatte sogar die Verwendung des Flinter Leitungswassers gestoppt, weil es bei Autoteilen Rost verursachte.

Veolia, ein französischer transnationaler Konzern, bewertete Flints Wasser als “in Übereinstimmung stehend mit staatlichen und Bundes-Gesetzen.” Während der Konzern geringe Änderungen vorschlug, um Farbe und Qualität des Wassers zu verbessern, erwähnte der Bericht nicht das enthaltene Blei.
http://berliner-wassertisch.info/die-rolle-von-veolia-in-der-wasser-tragoedie-von-flint-michigan/

10 Things they won't tell your about the Flint Water Tragedy .

But I will , by Michael Moore
http://michaelmoore.com/10FactsOnFlint/